robert goddard

     

At the time of the Apollo 11 moon landing, his widow said, "that was his dream, sending a rocket to the moon"

Trivia about robert goddard

  • In 1969 the N.Y. Times retracted a 1920 editorial ridiculing his claim that rockets could fly to the Moon
  • This American engineer patented 214 inventions in the rocketry field
  • In 1926 he launched the world's first liquid fuel rocket
  • Daniel Guggenheim helped fund this man's 1930 move to New Mexico to continue his rocket research
  • He's been called the "Father of Modern Rocketry"
  • He launched the first liquid propellant rocket in 1926 at his Aunt Effie's Massachusetts farm
  • This American was a real rocket scientist, launching his first one March 16, 1926
  • In 1919 the Smithsonian published his paper "A Method of Reaching Extreme Altitudes"
  • In 1929 this American launched the first instrument-carrying rocket
  • In 1966 the U.S. government awarded his heirs $1 million for infringements on his rocket patents
  • The Guggenheim Foundation is the assignee of the patents of this rocket pioneer; it had financed him in the 1940s
  • On March 16, 1961 NASA dedicated its space flight center to this man on the 35th anniversary of a major feat of his